Bible Person
Meaning: forbidding · Male · 2 cross references
Timnah is an Edomite chief-name preserved in the lists descending from Esau. The page uses a person-style entry for a ruling or ancestral name later associated with Edom's regional structure. First appears in Gen 36:40.1
AI summary: Timnah matters because his cross references place the name among the chiefs of Edom, helping preserve the political and genealogical order of a neighboring people. Even as a brief notice, the entry contributes to the wider regional map in which Israel's history unfolds. Taken together, the material presents Timnah as an Edomite chief-name in Scripture's remembered ordering of surrounding nations.1
Central Figure
Timnah
Meaning: forbidding
A “duke” or sheik of Edom (Gen.
A “duke” or sheik of Edom (Gen. 36:40). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.